Projects
Frame of reference in prevention of sexual and gender-based violence against and among young refugees, asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors in the European reception and asylum sector Ghent University
This community-based participatory research project wants to contribute to the health protection and promotion of young refugees, asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors through the development of a Frame of reference consisting of a Code of Conduct, a Standard Operating Procedure, and a training manual focusing on prevention of and response to SGBV within the European asylum and reception sector.
Family-life, difference and practices of citizenship. A longitudinal ethnography on families’ experiences in the Belgian and Dutch asylum regime KU Leuven
This research investigates how families are living with and navigating the asylum procedure in Belgium – within “camps” and beyond – in order to shine light on the affective, embodied process of seeking access to legal status. The monograph is based on a longitudinal, follow-along ethnography of families’ trajectories through the asylum regime in Belgium. It follows a number of families throughout the various phases of their asylum procedure: ...
Towards the Emergence of Urban Asylum Regimes: Policies, Approaches and Consequences of the Reception of Refugees in European and US American Cities Vrije Universiteit Brussel
You too? No way! Rape mythology applied to credibility assessments of applications based on sexual or gender-based violence in the European asylum procedure Ghent University
This research will study the concept of ‘rape mythology’ in the asylum procedure. The key reason for the refusal of asylum applications based on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is their non-credibility. These credibility assessments are often based on stereotypical, superficial, erroneous, or inappropriate perceptions of gender. In the criminal justice system, such perceptions have been conceptualised as ‘rape myths’: prejudicial, ...
Lawyering between counselling and adjudication: a sociolinguistic ethnography of legal assistance in the Belgian asylum procedure Ghent University
The asylum procedure is a complex, politicized and sensitive process. It has also been described as essentially ‘discourse-based’, as the decision of whether someone is granted asylum is determined by the performance of oral narratives during asylum interviews and their textual (re)production in reports and decisions. This is the front stage or ‘adjudication’ side of the procedure. On the backstage or ‘legal counselling’ side of the ...
Children's rights in appellate asylum proceedings: a legal ethnography Ghent University
This project will for the first time empirically investigate how the key actors in appellate asylum proceedings engage with children’ rights When the Commissioner-general for Refugees and Stateless Persons in Belgium does not recognize asylum seekers as refugee and/or does not grant them subsidiary protection, the latter can file an appeal before the Council for Alien Law Litigation The role of children’ rights in such appellate asylum ...
The Legal Value of the Principle of Solidarity in EU Asylum and Migration. University of Antwerp
You too? No way! Rape mythology applied to credibility assessments of applications based on sexual or gender-based violence (SGBV) in the European asylum procedure Ghent University
UNHCR’s concern that asylum authorities base credibility assessments on stereotypical and erroneous gender perceptions strongly resembles the ‘rape mytholgy’ phenomenon. This research will collect data from a literature analysis, asylum authorities (case law study and self-reporting KAP survey), and asylum seekers themselves (qualitative interviews), in order to analyse the occurrence of ‘SGBV mythology’ in the European asylum procedure....